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Proper running form
Tips for staying motivated
Importance of rest and recovery
The right action can produce a bad outcome. Process is all we have control over, not results.
BRIAN CHRISTIAN, TOM GRIFFITHS
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Overfitting
Too much information, options, and research are harmful.
There is wisdom in deliberately thinking less and settling for second-best solutions.
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Explore vs Exploit
When should you be exploring new options and when should you start settling for the best option you already know? Consider these concepts:
- Regret Minimisation Framework: When you look back on your life when you’re 80, what will you regret least?
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Scheduling
Scheduling is a fundamental productivity problem.
School of thoughts:
- Getting Things Done: immediately do any task of two minutes or less once it comes to mind
- Eat that Frog: beginning with the most difficult task
- The Now ...
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Optimal Stopping
When you are hiring, scouting houses to buy, options to consider — when should you stop looking?
You stop looking too early, you don’t know if someone better isn’t going to come along. You stop too late, you might have passed on the best candidate already.
Mathematically — you...
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Sorting
Sorting is one of the most fundamental problems that computers are solving for us
- Bubble sort + Insertion sort: when you put the book in alphabetically against a shelf of books, there is a billion different permutations and options
- Mergesort: when you compare two sets against e...
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Instead of thinking about only the next decision you will make, think about all of the decisions you are going to make about the same options in the future.
BRIAN CHRISTIAN, TOM GRIFFITHS
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Caching / Forgetting
Is a crucial part of computers, human memory, as well as organizing data or your papers on your desk.
- Random eviction: is not half bad, as the most important things keep getting back in
- First In, First Out (FIFO): it’s essentially a queue kicki...
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Seize The Interval
Seizing the day and seizing a lifetime are two entirely different endeavors.
When balancing favorite experiences and new ones, nothing matters more than the interval over which we plan to enjoy them. The interval makes the strategy.
By observing the strategy we can also infer...
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The Human Mind
The human mind does not run out of space, storage is unlimited, but the problem is one of organization. We have an infinite capacity for memories, but we have only a finite amount of time in which to search for them.
Researchers showed that by accumulat...
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Avoiding Regret
We can never predict the future, but we can make decisions we don’t regret.
If we focus on the thinking process, we will always know we did the right thing, so even a bad outcome will not lead to regret.
Ignoring the capability of our brain
But, people don’t understand the process of thinking, they tend to ignore the amazing capability our brain has. Much of what we do in everyday life involves a process — a series of actionable, repeatable steps that can be performed to accomplish the desired goal.
For example, we have a pr...
1. Focus on Your Response
The success formula for managing change is:
Event + Response = Outcome
The event is something we have no control over, but when we focus on what we can change, which is our response, we will begin to embrace it.
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